(CNN)A $12 billion makeover is underway for the US Air Force's 1980's-era F-15 fighter, a step towards upgrading an air fleet that one military official recently called the "smallest, oldest and least ready" in history.

The F-15 has long been hailed as the most successful dog-fighting aircraft in US history, boasting an undefeated air-to-air combat record with more than 100 aerial combat victories, according to Boeing, the plane's primary contractor and developer.

The Air Force initially planned to replace the entire F-15 fleet with the fifth-generation F-22 Raptor, but production of the stealthy aircraft was halted in 2009 and only 188 of the 749 F-22s purchased by the Pentagon were ever produced.

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Well, the F-35 was not supposed to replace the F-15. The F-22 did. Unfortunately politician though it was unnecessary to make more F-22 after cold war. Costly, yes, but what is the price of freedom?And now we have to upgrade a plane which its first flight was in 1972. I like the F-15, a lot, but its time is done. We need money for a new air superiority fighter. A F-22B. But our current President took good care for cutting money on defense. Just criminal.

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